The Blender Gamekit, 2nd Edition: Interactive 3D for Artists
http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/apr2010/mosher_wartmann.php
by Carsten Wartmann, Editor
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Darwin’s Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution
http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/apr2010/ione_prodger.php
by Phillip Prodger
Reviewed by Amy Ione

Cyberculture and New Media
http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/apr2010/baetens_ricardo.php
by Francisco J. Ricardo, Editor
Reviewed by John F. Barber

Eddy Loves Frank
http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/apr2010/mosher_cuneiform.php
by The Eddy Palermo Big Band
and
Fear Draws Misfortune
http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/apr2010/mosher_cuneiform.php
by Cheer Accident
Reviewed by Michael R. (Mike) Mosher

Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology
http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/apr2010/harle_nusselder.php
by André Nusselder
Reviewed by Rob Harle

Migratory Settings; Thamyris Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race Series 19
http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/apr2010/speed_aydemir.php
by Murat Aydemir and Alex Rotas, Editors
Reviewed by Chris Speed

The Poetics of Space: Spatial Explorations in Art, Science, Music and Technology
http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/apr2010/reddell_altena.php
Sonic Acts XIII Festival
and
Sonic Acts XIII – The Poetics of Space
http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/apr2010/reddell_altena.phpby Arie Altena; Sonic Acts, Editors
Reviewed by Trace Reddell

2001: A Space Odyssey, Bladerunner, AI: Artificial Intelligence, I, Robot, and The Bicentennial Man, and, on television, in stories such as the classic Twilight Zone episode “The Lonely,” the “Valerie 23” and “Mary 25”episodes of The Outer Limits, and the 1980s TV series Small Wonder. Human-machine relationships run the gamut from comedic to sinister. In The Desk Set, a satire of contemporary worries about how smart computers would affect the human labor force, Woody Allen’s character struggles with toasters, tape recorders, and cars, whereas much darker forces are at work in the relationship between a man and his machine in Christine. These and other stories have raised numerous questions: Is sex with an android any different than sex with a vibrator? Could a machine love you back? What does the “cyborg-ization of society” mean, and how does it alter the Cartesian distinction between living and non-living things?

2010 Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television
November 10-14, 2010
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory
First Round Deadline: November 1, 2009

AREA: “Loving the Machine: Human-Machine Relationships in Film and
Television”

This area, comprising multiple panels, invites submissions that explore this subject from a variety of methodologies. Topics might include but are not limited to the following:

• Human/machine relationships in Anime
• The anthropomorphism and/or gendering of ships, vehicles, and weapons
• The recent trend of producing shorts with robotic pets for YouTube
• Android love
• Obsession with a particular machine
• Dystopian representations of machine-run societies
• Love/hate relationships with machines
• Robots as either saviors or conquerors
• Mystical or magical sources in human/machine stories
• Literary sources of films and teleplays about love and the machine
• Philosophical bases of our ideas about our relationship with machines

Please send your 200-word proposal (by e-mail only) to the area chair:

Lisa Nocks, Area Chair
Federated Department of History
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ 07102
email: lnocks@gmail.com

Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).